CBSE Class 8 English The Summit Within MCQs

Question. Name the mountain where the writer had climbed.
(a) Mount Everest
(b) Kanchenjunga
(c) Nanda Devi
(d) Kamet

Answer : A

Question. Name the lesson.
(a) This is Jody’s Fawn
(b) The Summit Within
(c) A Visit to Cambridge
(d) The Tsunami

Answer : B

Question. Name the mountain where the writer had climbed.
(a) Mount Everest
(b) Kanchenjunga
(c) Nanda Devi
(d) Kamet

Answer : A

Question. For whom ‘me’ is used here.
(a) the organiser.
(b) Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
(c) the climber
(d) the editor

Answer : B

Question. How does the experience of the other summit change one completely?
(a) It makes the writer more conscious and aware.
(b) it makes the write proud.
(c) it makes the writer jubilant.
(d) It makes the writer compassionate.

Answer : A

Question. Standing on Everest, Ahluwalia was filled with the emotion of
(a) great pleasure
(b) much excitement
(c) great pride
(d) much humility

Answer : D

Question. People climb mountains because they
(a) have nothing better to do
(b) get much money and name
(c) feel happy in overcoming obstacles
(d) are paid for it

Answer : C

Question. What all emotions does the author experience on realizing both the summits?
(a) Emotions on realizing
(b) Humility and sorrow
(c) Confidence
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question. Why is the person who has been to the mountains never the same again?
(a) The experience changes him completely.
(b) He gets hurt.
(c) The experience makes him proud.
(d) He goes mad.

Answer : A

Question. Seeing a mountain peak from a distance Ahluwalia feels that
(a) it looks very beautiful
(b) its beauty is great
(c) it offers a challenge which is difficult to resist
(d) it brings fear to the mind

Answer : C

Question. Why does man take delight in overcoming obstacles?
(a) Adventurous
(b) Daring
(c) To overcome hundles
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question. Who cuts the steps in the hard ice?
(a) Another climber
(b) The author
(c) Rope
(d) None of these

Answer : A

Question. Give the verb form of ‘humality’
(a) humble
(b) humiliation
(c) humiliate
(d) humiliating

Answer : C

Question. Why is the climber filled with gratitude?
(a) For having reached the summit safely
(b) For having reached the summit first
(c) For having become victorious
(d) For having left everyone behind

Answer : A

Question. A climber bows down to God
(a) when he starts climbing
(b) when he reaches the top
(c) when he finds great difficulties
(d) when he sees the beauty around

Answer : B

Question. People climb mountains because they
(a) have nothing better to do
(b) get much money and name
(c) feel happy in overcoming obstacles
(d) are paid for it

Answer : C

Question. Who was a member of the first successful India expedition to Mount Everest in 1965?
(a) Phu Dorji
(b) Edmud Hillary
(c) H.P.S Ahuwalia

Answer : C

Question. What all emotions does the author experience on realizing both the summits?
(a) Emotions on realizing
(b) Humility and sorrow
(c) Confidence
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question. While climbing the mountains, the climbers get inspiration from
(a) the beautiful nature
(b) difficulties of climbing
(c) thinking of God
(d) each other

Answer : D

Question. How does the experience of the other summit change one completely?
(a) It makes the writer more conscious and aware.
(b) it makes the write proud.
(c) it makes the writer jubilant.
(d) It makes the writer compassionate.

Answer : A

Question. What had the author’s experience as an Ever ester provided him?
(a) Energetic to life
(b) Inspiration to face life’s ordeals
(c) Motivated
(d) Proud

Answer : B

Question. The author had a Tinge of sadness. what was it?
(a) There would be nothing higher to climb
(b) All roads here after would lead down
(c) Both (i) & (ii)
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. Why does man take delight in overcoming obstacles?
(a) Adventurous
(b) Daring
(c) To overcome hundles
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question. How long does the joy of climbing the Summit of Everest last?
(a) Lifetime
(b) 20 years
(c) For some months
(d) None of these

Answer : A

Question. ‘As i look back at life after climbing Everest cannot help remarking about the other Summit’. What is the ‘other Summit’ here?
(a) The Summit of heart
(b) The Summit of brain
(c) The Summit of mind
(d) None of these

Answer : C

Question. What did Phu Dorji leave a relic of on Everest?
(a) Lord Krishna
(b) Buddha
(c) Guru Nanak
(d) Goddess Durga

Answer : C

Question. What is the simplest answer of why people climb mountains?
(a) People love to climb
(b) Because it is adventurous
(c) It makes physically strong
(d) Because it is there

Answer : D

Question. Give the meaning of ‘obstacles’.
(a) hindrances
(b) spectacles
(c) situation
(d) conditions

Answer : A

Question. What has been the narrator’s glorious achievement?
(a) Conquest of Mount Kailash
(b) Conquest of Mount Everest
(c) Conquest of Mount K2
(d) None of these

Answer : B

Question. Standing on Everest, Ahluwalia was filled with the emotion of
(a) great pleasure
(b) much excitement
(c) great pride
(d) much humility

Answer : D